The Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Karolinska Institute: The Story of Axel Key and Alfred NobelThis book is a must not only for neuroscientists and historians but also for physicians all around the world who are interested in the history of medicine, the Karolinska Institute, and the two Swedish contemporaries Axel Key and Alfred Nobel. It provides enjoyable and informative reading, and, with a large number of portraits, it puts faces to the nerves, cells, microbes and diseases that have been named after their famous discoverers. |
Contents
EA R L Y T E A C H I N G O F M E D I C I N E A N D T H E K A R O L I N S K A I N S T I T U T E | 1 |
AX E L K E Y A N D T H E K A R O L I N S K A I N S T I T U T E | 25 |
ON S W E D I S H A N D S C A N D I N A V I A N H E R I TA G E | 41 |
AN A C A D E M I C P E R E G R I N A T I O T O C E N T R A L E U R O P E I N 1 8 7 2 | 55 |
NE U R O R E S E A R C H AT T H E K A R O L I N S K A I N S T I T U T E I N T H E 1 8 7 0 S | 93 |
ON A N 1 8 9 1 A U T O P S Y R E P O R T F R O M T H E K A R O L I N S K A I N S T I T U T E | 107 |
HA R M O N Y B E T W E E N A X E L K E Y A N D A L F R E D N O B E L | 123 |
AP P E N D I X | 159 |
BI B L I O G R A P H Y | 207 |
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AC K N O W L E D G M E N T S | 230 |
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